Software engineering practices have been steadily moving towards higher-level programming languages and away from lower-level ones. High-level languages tend to greatly improve safety, productivity, and code maintainability because they handle various impl ...
This column introduces seven invited position papers about the challenges and opportunities in near-data processing. "Near-Memory Data Services" by Babak Falsafi, "Automata Processing: The Memory Is the Processor!" by Mircea Stan, Kevin Skadron, "Overcomin ...
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2016
In this paper we advocate that it is time for a radical rethinking of database systems design. Developers should be able to leverage high-level programming languages without having to pay a price in efficiency. To realize our vision of abstraction without ...
This work investigates on computer aided integrated architectural design and production. The aim is to provide integral solutions for the design and the production of geometrically complex free-form architecture. Investigations on computer aided geometric ...